Pudgy

You are not in Kansas, anymore.
Your bluster is irrelevant.
 

interesting new ability to view photons in action: I'd love for them to try the double slit experiment and observing the behavior with this new camera.
 

Recent experiments have proved the concept of “advanced” and “retarded” light, which means that each photon emitted from any source, at any frequency is FIRST triggered by the return  signal which goes backwards in time FROM whatever WILL ABSORB IT, at the other end., be it nanometers away, or at the edge of the Universe.
The “trigger”, signal is called the “Advanced Photon”
You know that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, time stops.
ON A PHOTON …. time is completely stopped, so a trillion years travel time does not affect it at all.
Travel time of a photon from point “A” to point “B” may take 30 billion years, and the return photon (the “Advanced Photon”) Photon that allows it to release may take negative 30 billion years, but to EITHER photon it’s almost instantaneous, except for a few nanoseconds where the photon traveling backwards in time arrives at the local source BEFORE the light leaves the local source.
The local photon generated (… say from a candle …) is called the “retarded photon”.
Cool, huh?

It's gonna make a great jw Christmas song!

In 2011, during preparations for a theocratic building project, concerns of financial impropriety arose on the part of various congregation members.
As these concerns mounted, the Branch Office was notified and I then posted this advisory as a general notification.  
Despite being moved by genuine concern for others, I should have refrained from doing so as the concerns of fraud that I and others had proved to be wrong.
Traveling overseers review any and all financial records when they visit the congregation. If something is out of order, it is the overseer’s responsibility to inform the Branch and address those involved.
Apologies to The Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and all concerned. 
Jehovah’s organization gets it right and I’m glad to have been wrong.
J.C.

Some pix I snapped earlier today although most of the small babies are hiding until feeding time. There are none in the first picture, but if you look closely at the second picture, you might be able to pick out about six of them.

It sounds very reasonable, whether true or not true. If true, then there is the “problem” of say, as an example only, one might disfellowshipped for openly celebrating your childrens’ birthdays in 2026, and a week later it’s a “conscience matter. Or the blood issue, same thing. 
It’s macavellian to make arbitrary rules  and regulation just for the purpose of intimidation and fear, but it is a common practice everywhere, and sometimes is fully justified.
To consolidate power and authority and fear for a school teacher is a good thing, and always necessary. My wife is a high school math teacher, in a school system that has abandoned that. Arbitrary rules heavily enforced and the fear it creates keeps the rug rats in line …. or used to.
To consolidate power and authority and fear of clerical authorities with arbitrary rules and regulations is not permitted in a religion where absolute obedience to TRUTH is what is required, and how a Congregation should be run and disciplined is given by Jesus in Matthew the 18th Chapter, and by his example.
Jesus didn’t even have a small suitcase, and certainly not multi-billions of dollars in real estate, or a private Jet. Or several.
i really don’t have any standing to pontificate about this, as I asked to be disfellowshipped, except on the basis of common sense… which often is not all that common.
 

I read on another site that at least one Bethel insider is saying that the Governing Body is going to start allowing birthdays. They say the Watchtower hired a PR/rebranding firm and has a 10 year plan to roll back doctrine and policies to become more mainstream. They are supposedly 2 years into the 10 year plan. Birthdays next with blood to follow, becoming "conscious matters". 
Has anyone else heard this?

I was at a stoplight, when this scraggly non-Caucasian with some brochures and a can motioned for me to roll my window down 
He was asking for contributions to the BLFM, and I put two dollars in his can.
as he turned, a I asked “What is the BLFM?”.
He replied “Better Lunches For Me”.
 

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“D” word?~
Luke and Laura from “General Hospital”?

Just to be clear, you hope I’m a sadistic animal ? Strange hope. 

… the real reason I have never been banned from here is that I use established, checkable facts and biting satire  to insult ideas and bogus premeses, and the generator gets insulted.
The real reason you have been banned here many times is that you insult people, and make up and use lies to try and support your being superior to everyone here.
I consider myself a guest here.
You act like you are the boss.

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AND THEN… and THEN!,  In the imagined context he had to hunt for as the 5th down definition on Wikipedia which “he”  finds SO OUTRAGEOUSLY OFFENSIVE, “he” uses THAT definition to insult others!
wow!

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Where is Luke and Laura when you need them?

BTK59 …. what you have been doing so far just ain’t cuttin’ it.
EVERYBODY has an opinion.
EVERYBODY has a butt hole.
….. don’t get ‘em mixed up!
Now THAT’s a FACT!

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Just to be clear JWI, TOM, Librarian, that sick individual @Miracle Pete It's unacceptable that someone would use such offensive language on your forum, violating your bylaws. It's even more outrageous that the individual is allowed to continue while you consider banning me for simply speaking the truth.
I just wanted to point out your hypocrisy here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob#:~:text=Derogatory term for a man's,in the UK and Ireland
Derogatory term for a man's penis, typically used as an insult in the UK and Ireland Your mentally ill @Miracle Pete, and I hope you're not a witness, just a sadistic animal.

I agree @Miracle Pete You and @Pudgy, are a nob. However, you have the potential to become even more, as unrepentant fools have the ability to do and say anything. 

I had to look that up……

Or to put it a little more succinctly as we say in the UK , He’s a bit of a nob 

BTK59 …. Your writing is one continuous stream of theological theory in vague, nebulous, fuzzy generalizations that use recursive loop logic, which ALWAYS fails … BECAUSE … you never supply any hard facts to back up your suppositions.
For a change, add some hard facts, real life examples, and SPECIFICS to your arguements.
A MATRIX OF WORDS IS NOT A FACT.
Disneyland is a multi- billion dollar real enterprise in California … but the basis for the “House Of Mouse”, is a carefully constructed fantasy.
…. like your non-specific wish list of nattering nebulosity.
… like perhaps the greatest Science Fiction book of all time, “The Stars My Destination”, by Alfred Bester. I feel very strongly about that, but human teleportation is not a real thing, and although I could spend several pages gushing about it, it would be ONLY my strongly held opinion about a fantasy.
….. like your carefully constructed word salad fantasy about what is really going on.

…BTK59:
Before you get into your “wish list” of how your imagination perceives things happen, take a short side trip through REALITY .. . the way things really are.